Seth Paskin

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1,271 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 399: Dan Dennett's Model of Mind (Part One) · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

So you're constantly, the distillation that you get is something of ours, right? podcast-host

It's not something that is there. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

So when you use that word illusion, I immediately want to jump on it. podcast-host

And I'm reminded that you already jumped on it. podcast-host

And I just wanted to try to use his language. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

So I think it's worth hating it because it's the notion that our felt experience isn't real, doesn't require the conclusion that it sits in our pineal gland. podcast-host

Any more than the conclusion that we are actively processing the world and that there's a set of narrative conclusions about it doesn't mean that the world, it doesn't exist in its own as a real thing. podcast-host

The nice thing about that one is it gives an example of how something can make sense but not have a original source of sense. podcast-host

You want the same kind of thing for natural selection and why something seems to be designed when it was really generated through a process of natural selection. podcast-host

It's a very similar problem. podcast-host

sure. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

Part of that example, or he makes this point later in the book, but the illusion without an illusionist or the text without an author, there is the fact that the person who's asking the questions is making a story themselves. podcast-host

And that is really the kind of act of consciousness that I think Dennis is referring to. podcast-host

But there isn't a fact of the matter that isn't separate from what that act, that person who's asking the questions is coming to the conclusion of. podcast-host

We can't say, is he correct about the story about the dream? podcast-host

There's no sense to be made of that. podcast-host

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